Chapter 767 - 231: [Why Are There Two????]
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Chapter 231 [How can there be two????](6600)
A bunch of foolish birds...
Chen Yan looked at the ancient-style handsome Inner Sect Disciple on the high platform, then glanced at the over a hundred seated preparatory disciples.
The ancient-style handsome disciple wore a face full of admiration and pride—like someone who receives a pillow just when they’re about to fall asleep.
The seated preparatory disciples exchanged looks of confusion, some agape, some puzzled—What was wrong with the questions we asked before? Why were they deemed stupid??
Asking about the Heavenly Dao, wasn’t that advanced enough? Not prestigious enough?
Asking about how to balance the time for Cultivation between Primordial Spirit and Primordial Qi—doesn’t that show the person asking is diligent and deserves encouragement?
Asking...
No!
That guy just asked why the sect was named this way, and that was considered a good question?!
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Chen Yan smilingly looked at everyone, then his gaze shifted to one full of expectation, eagerly watching the ancient-style handsome disciple on the platform.
The one on the platform calling these people stupid wasn’t wrong, they really were stupid!
The Inner Sect Disciple of such high caliber obviously didn’t come here to teach a professional course!
He’s here to give a lecture! Understand what a lecture is! A lecture is about talking in vague terms, discussing overarching theories.
Who’s here to dive into details and teach professional course knowledge?! That’s something for when you formally join the sect as disciples, naturally there’ll be sect mentors to teach and pass on the knowledge to you!
Teach you how to best allocate your time for Primordial Spirit and Primordial Qi cultivation for optimal efficiency? Is this what a lecture should cover? That’s professional course content discussed after enrollment!
Talk about the Heavenly Dao? That’s fundamental theory knowledge! Just like studying Marxist philosophy at university for a specific major. Can it be explained in one lecture? Wouldn’t it take a whole semester?
Asking such questions is basically making it difficult for the lecturer to perform!
What does this preparatory academy’s study resemble?
Like a school welcoming new students!
In the real world, from high school to university, schools hold lectures to welcome new students during orientation.
During the lecture, what do they discuss? Functions? Advanced mathematics? Or calculus?
Crazy?
They talk about school culture! The school’s history and legacy!!
Discussing things such as: This school, the name is XXX, the origin of its name, its glorious history and excellent traditions, the school motto, and the profound significance and value...
The ancient-style handsome disciple clearly saw Chen Yan’s gaze with a hint of satisfaction, as lectures like these are inherently something the other Inner Sect brothers were lazy about, dragging him here.
In the end, a bunch of foolish novices don’t even know how to support the act—this batch of newcomers, hopeless!
But there was still someone presenting a good talking point which pleased him, so he began to elaborate.
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"My sect is named Celestial Demon Yin Yang Joyful Sect.
This name should actually be broken down into three words: Celestial Demon, Yin Yang, Joyful!
Many ordinary folks misunderstand the mystery within, see the word ’demon’, see ’joyful’, and presume it’s heretical, something wretched that cannot be spoken of, that’s sheer folly.
Within my sect, Celestial Demon, Yin Yang, Joyful, are actually the three-fold Dao Heart Realm of our sect’s cultivation!
The First Realm of the Dao Heart is the Celestial Demon Realm.
This term, Celestial Demon, needs to be dissected. The word ’Celestial’ signifies the circulation of Heavenly Principle! It is the most righteous and rightful logic and rule at this time, namely Heavenly Principle!
While ’Demon’ refers to the Heart Demon. It’s the most dishonorable, most secretive, unmentionable dark thoughts and obsessions within us cultivators!
Heavenly Principle and Heart Demon are two opposing sides...
The First Tier of Dao Heart, Celestial Demon Realm, requires cultivators in the sect to recognize what constitutes Heavenly Principle and what represents demonic thoughts.
More than recognition, it’s necessary to face them, not shy away, interrogate one’s inner self, inquire what Heavenly Principle do I honor, and what unseeable dark thoughts and obsessions lurk within my heart...
Having recognized them, you must accept, and at this stage, you enter the sect’s second tier Doa Heart: Yin Yang!
Heavenly Principle is Yang, demonic thoughts are Yin.
The ideology within one’s heart is perpetually Yin and Yang opposite, just like in this world, when there is Yin, there is Yang, when there is Yang, there is Yin.
In this world, there’s absolutely no purely absolute good Saint, nor can there be a purely absolute evil villain.
We must recognize this truth, accept this truth.
Blindly advocating Heavenly Principle is unwise, like enforcing everyone to be Saints by demanding their thoughts hold to the complete standard of a righteous person, that’s purely wasting efforts. The louder the slogans, the fewer Saints it creates, only a batch of hypocrites.
While blindly succumbing to demonic thoughts is simply indulging one’s inner secrecy and desires, eventually becoming slaves to desires, driven by demonic thoughts...
Our sect’s third tier Dao Heart, Joyful.
Which signifies integration.
This integration is not suppression or obliteration as you might understand.
But rather acceptance on both sides, I accept I honor Heavenly Principle, righteous light on one side, I also accept the dark thoughts within myself.
For us cultivators, the biggest hurdle in cultivation is a Heart Demon.
For other sects, they urge the slaying of Heart Demons, suppression, obliteration.
But our sect is different, our sect promotes integration, allowing oneself to confront inner obessions, accept them, and integrate the bright side and the dark side together...When I have more good thoughts, my actions will cultivate good deeds.
In years full of shadowy obsessions, there’s no need to shy away—human desires are natural cycles of Heavenly Dao, nothing more usual.